Warring Republicans Reach Armistice For Caucus Time
Washington January 15 Republicans in Congress declare a temporary truce as Taft mediates between regulars and insurgents. Diekema of Michigan aims to be speaker. A White House visit by Hayes helps calm factional tensions and plan for committee appointments on Ballinger Pinchot inquiry.
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Michigan
Cannon
Sonderatandine
Taft
White House
Representative Hayes
California
House
Dwight
Hayes
Interior Department
Weather outlook with mild warmth and clear skies
Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday with a rise in temperatures. Lows near 25 degrees, 7 am reading 22, last 24 hours max 29 min 20. Jet wind 4 mph, no precipitation, humidity 87 at 7 pm and 89 at 7 am. Sunset 4:53, sunrise 7:18, moonset 9:43 pm.
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J. M. Sherier
SALOON LOSES IN GARY BY 7 VOTES
Laporte Ind Jan 15 By a decision of Judge Tuthill in the superior court aday the anti saloon element of Gary won by a majority of seven They claimed 6 and the saloon men cont ested the election The town will be by at least two years Wage Deadlock No Papers Issued Denver Colo Jan 15 Because of the failure of the publishers and press men s union to reach an agreement on the wage question neither of the two narning papers appeared today
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House Kills New Date for Inauguration
Washington reports that the House voted to recommit the resolution changing the presidential inauguration date. The move effectively defeats the proposal. Also in Washington the Appropriations Committee cut urgent deficiency funds by nearly a million, reporting a bill carrying 5,103,816 dollars.
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Committee On Appropriations
Upholds Knox Plan for Far East Trade
Lewis Nixon, boat builder and Russo-Japanese War veteran, lauds Secretary Knox’s plan for neutralizing Manchurian railways and expanding open trade with China. He praises a Knox Doctrine to defend against commercial partition, urges public support to promote equal trade opportunities in the East and lay foundations for a great foreign commerce.
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Lewis Nixon
Far East
New York
Knox
Nixon
Japan
China -Yrennrs ST
China
South America
United States
Winter Storms Hit Many Cities
Chicago dispatches describe a major cold snap and heavy snow across river valleys. St Louis faces about 625000 dollars in damage from an ice gorge. a Kaw river bridge section in Kansas City is crushed. Nebraska cattle perish. Michigan and Wisconsin see disrupted traffic and fuel shortages in Chicago hamper milk deliveries to homes with babies.
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Mississippi
Ohio River
St. Louis
Kansas City
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Nebraska
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Wisconsin
Mllnois
Chicagoans Fight Corporation Tax in Federal Suit
In Chicago on January 15 a suit was filed in the United States circuit court challenging the federal corporation tax as unconstitutional. Fred W. Smith, a stockholder of the Northern Trust Company of Chicago, seeks an injunction to prevent the company from paying the tax in what is described as a test case. Separately, a 19 year old woman, Josephine Croan of Anderson Indiana, was held on $100 bond for passing a worthless check after cashing one in Burlington Iowa under the name Helen Houston. Madrid reports Premier Moret says a crisis has been created by military agitation against the government with over 2300 officers allegedly discontented.
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United States
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Fred W. Smith
Northern Trust Company of Chicago
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Josephine Croan
Anderson
Ind
Burlington
Iowa
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Spain
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Moret
British Elections on Vital Questions at Stake
London reports David Lloyd George pledging naval invincibility and warning that a German attack would end in the German ocean. First round results show 66 constituencies voting for 74 MPs, with shifts expected as new party lists contend across universities, Manchester, and Birmingham amid bitter campaigns.
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David Lloyd George
Grimsby
Great Britain
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Dublin
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Escaped mob threatens lynching as death sentence set
Belleville, Jan. 15. Wills Clark, the negro who pleaded guilty to killing Eugene V. Goodey the motorman and shooting and robbing M. V. O'Brien, conductor, was sentenced to hang Feb. 18. Two mobs threatened to lynch Clark after his arrest last month.
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Eugene V. Goodey
M. V. O'Brien
Walter Lonsdale Doubts Veracity of Cook’s Polar Claim
Copenhagen January report says Walter Lonsdale former Cook associate now questions the polar discovery tale. He served as United States Minister Egan’s private secretary, helped copy polar data, and sent letters to Cook while awaiting verdict. Lonsdale estimates Cook earned about 350000 from the Arctic claim.
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Cook
Copenhagen
North Pole
University of Copenhagen
Lonsdale
United States
Egan
Spain
Dawson to retire bid for renomination in Iowa's Second District
Representative Dawson of Iowa's Second District announces he will not seek renomination next June. He says his family requires financial provision and that after six years in Congress he should return to private life. He notes no involvement in the regular insurgent GOP split influenced his decision. He is in his third term amid a growing Republican majority in a tight district.
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Washington
Dawson
Iowa
Negro Woman Held for Gunness Crime
La Porte Indiana January 15 Mrs Elizabeth Adams colored today was taken into custody as a witness to the murder of Mrs Belle Gunness and her children by Ray Lamphere as revealed in Lamphere s confession to Rev E A Schell of Mount Pleasant Iowa Judge Richter ordered the arrest after conferring with prosecutor Smith The prosecutor announced he was satisfied Lamphere s narrative to Schell was a faithful account of the happenings on the Gunness murder farm
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Elizabeth Adams
Belle Gunness
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Mount Pleasant
Iowa
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Schell
Gunness
Cotton market opens with brisk activity in New York
New York January 15 The cotton market opened with excitement and saw about 200000 bales change hands in early trading as observers noted a closing phase after a year of movement amid a bull campaign ending and a cotton slump shaping the near term outlook.
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New York
Pinchot Removal Triumph for Land and Timber Thieves
Special Correspondence from The Argus reports on the Bal linger Pinchot clash. It argues Taft is being used to purge reformers from the government and urges readers that the dismissal of Gifford Pinchot marks a climax in a broader fight against land and timber thieves and conservation reform.
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Forestry Bureau
Plan to sweep the country with Roosevelt crosses continent
The report notes a market collapse in cotton with May contracts hitting 13.70 amid heavy liquidation. It cites E G Seales of Texas as a top bull with about 10 million in profits and 1,000,000 bales controlled. Champ Clark predicts a sweeping Democratic victory in Congress. Clark tells of a Kansas City envoy inviting Roosevelt to land in San Francisco and cross the continent, paralleling Grant.
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Narrow Escape for Whitelaw Reid
New York dispatch reports Whitelaw Reid American ambassador to Great Britain narrowly escaped injury aboard the overdue American liner St Louis when a giant sea wave swept the promenade deck last Wednesday evening. Reid and his secretary Miss Rogers were drenched as the wave tore through the ship’s forward area.
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Twelve Hurt in Burlington Coasting Accidents
Burlington Iowa January 15 Twelve persons were severely hurt two fatally possibly in two coasting accidents at the bottom and middle of a hill. Six were severely hurt when two sleds collided at the hill's bottom. A heavily loaded pair collided in the middle injuring a girl with both legs broken a boy with internal injuries and four others with severe cuts or broken bones.
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Death of Chicagoan Barrett Eastman Found Dead in Biloxi
Identification of a body found in a Biloxi hotel as Barrett Eastman dramatic critic of Chicago was made by Colonel A Eastman city statistician. Indications pointed to self poisoning.
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Wisconsin Man Kills Former Wife Then Self
Milwaukee Jan 15 A Wisconsin Evening special reports August Maves a Greenleaf farmer shot and killed his wife wounded his daughter Mrs Martha Knorr Appleton then killed himself The divorce had been granted to Mrs Maves two weeks earlier The shooting occurred when the women returned to retrieve clothing
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August Maves
Greenleaf
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Appleton
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Congress Day Briefs in Washington Jan 15 1939
The Senate did not convene. In the House, after the president's conservation message, debate focused on the Henry resolution to amend the constitution to change presidential inauguration date. Opponents led by Perkins of New York urged adjournment to avoid a two thirds vote, while defenders Parker New Jersey Henry Texas Goebel Ohio argued for it. Supporters Stafford Campbell Harrison McFadden Driscoll Craig Brissons opposed the measure. The House adjourned without a vote.
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Campbell
Kansas
Harrison
New York
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Driscoll
Craig
Alabama
Brissons
Spirit medium caught faking in Chicago seance
Detective Philip Fitzsimmons confronted a spirit during a seance on the south side and seized the supposed spirit of his great grandfather. The light revealed the medium, Mrs. C. B. Green, who, with her husband and four women, was arrested with others for conducting fraudulent spiritualistic meetings.
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Chicago
Philip Fitzsimmons
C. B. Green
No light on Swope death investigation stalls
Kansas City reports delay in completing the examination of Colonel Thomas H. Swope's stomach to determine if poisoning caused his death. Detectives had worked the case since early in the week with little progress, leaving the mystery unsolved and no clear cause established.
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Kansas City
Thomas H. Swope
Admits Three Marriages in Terre Haute Arrest
Harry Epperly, captured at Terre Haute at Indiana police request, reportedly confirms three wives Carrie Kennedy Epperly in Anderson Emma Decker Epperly in Monmouth and Bessie Dunbar Epperly in Terre Haute While denying a Telegraph Merger New York January 15 Vice President Adams of the Postal Telegraph company rejects any plan to merge telegraph interests and says competition with Western Union will continue.
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Terre Hate
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Anderson
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Ill
Bessie Dunbar Epperly
New York
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Western Union
Turkey Ready to Resent New Slap by Crete
Constantinople reports 12,000 Turkish troops stand ready to be sent to Crete amid tensions over Cretan actions. The Porte protested to the powers against Crete’s oath of allegiance to King George and its assembly’s plan to adopt the Hellenic code. Britain and Russia expressed regret and indicated steps to curb repetition.
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